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Here's a recipe for an ideal summer evening: Listen to a guitar duo while sitting on a patio with a glass of chilled wine in your hand as the sun sets over the vineyard that produced the grapes for your vino.

This Napa Valley-like experience can be had right here in the Champlain Valley.

The folks at Shelburne Vineyard in Shelburne offer a schedule of events throughout the summer that creates an outdoor venue for entertainment, food and drink. The tasting room sits surrounded by vineyards on the lake side of U.S. 7 just a short way south of the Bostwick Road/Marsett Road intersection.

The winery partners with local restaurants for the food, and adds beer from Fiddlehead Brewing across the street to its wine list.

On the Thursday before the Independence Day weekend, Abbie Morin and Tom Pearo provided the sound track as people sipped wine made from grapes grown in the field that stretched out below the patio.

Groups of friends and families sat at the outdoor tables or on blankets spread on the grass as they munched on thin-crust pizza baked on-site by the folks from American Flatbread in their mobile hearth. Children ran around on the open lawn or played hide-and-seek among the grape vines.

Wine, wood-fired pizza and song — the combination added up to offer a family friendly night out without having to sacrifice grown-up pleasures.

Up next on Friday, July 10 will be an evening of "Bluegrass and BBQ" featuring Max Wareham and the Morning Bugle for the tunes, and Bluebird BBQ and frozen truffles from Queen City Pops for the eats.

Contact Aki Soga at asoga@FreePressMedia.com or (802) 660-1873. Follow him on Twitter at @asoga.